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6,700 | I have a question about recursive, backward raytracing.
When an incident ray (I) strikes an object at point P, first
the normal (N) is calculated. Light rays are calculated (L1 to Ln
where n is the number of light sources) - these being the light
rays that do not intersect with anything. The reflected ray (R) and
the... | 7 |
6,701 | Mail bounced, so...
Traditional wisdom says you are almost certainly better off selling it
yourself if you don't mind that extra hassle. Having a trade-in on a purchase
just makes getting the best price from a dealership more confusing.
I assume this is _retail_ bluebook. There are two bluebook prices, one for
r... | 4 |
6,702 | How can anyone pick the worst Yankee pitcher. In the past 12
years there have been so many.
Does the name Steve "You mean I should try and throw the ball
to the catcher" Trout? | 11 |
6,703 | I've just started programming with the PIC16c57 and I'd like talk to similar
like minded people ? Have you built anything interesting, if so, I'd be
interested in talking about various aspects.
Yes, I already have the application sheets, assembler & simulator.
Cheers,
Stuart
| 15 |
6,704 |
Ugliest stance of all time has to go to Oscar Gamble. The man would
practically kneel in front of home plate in order to have a small strike
zone! (He's just lucky that strike zone size isn't determined by how big
your afro is:) | 11 |
6,705 | Less Than 40 People (617) 267-1700
40 or more (617) 262-1915 | 11 |
6,706 |
Wrong, wrong, completely wrong (and a little misleading, too).
White noise is random noise whose energy density is constant for a
constant bandwidth. That is, a 5 Hz wide band at 20 Hz will have precisely
the same amount of energy as a 5 Hz band at 20 kHz.
Pink noise is random noise whose energy density is constant ... | 15 |
6,707 | Russell Turpin, as is his wont, has raised some interesting issues
in his struggle with the Christian texts and the Christians.
Unfortunately, he seems to be hoping for simplicity where it is
not available. The lukewarm stew he detects may well be an inevitable
result of the divine mixing himself up with a bunch of... | 8 |
6,708 |
Try .exe /s (/s for save screen, /c for config, defaults to /c)
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The question is not "If a tree falls in the forest and no one sees or hears,
did it fall?" but rather "How many koalas can that one tree take out???"
-------------------... | 17 |
6,709 | : >What exactly does the windows bitmap format look like? I mean, how is
: >the data stored: width, height, no. of colours, bitmap data? I couldn't
: >find anything in ths user manual, is there any other reference material
: >which would give me this information?
: Well, this is *only* a guess: If it goes by the "tru... | 17 |
6,710 | 11 | |
6,711 |
We have three options with respect to the Constitution:
1. Abide by it.
2. Duly amend it.
3. Abandon those parts of which a majority disapproves.
Of course, since the whole point of the Constitution is to restrain the
will of the majority, and since even in unfettered democracy we have
nothing to fear from minoriti... | 13 |
6,712 |
So do other parts of the Bible when taken literally - i.e. the Psalms
saying the Earth does not move, or the implication the Earth is flat
with four corners, etc. The Bible was written to teach salvation, not
history or science.
What ones? Paryers for the dead or the intercession of saints? (Which
are taught in 2... | 18 |
6,713 | I'm looking for some specs for a Toshiba TA6267-BP. It appears
to be a power amp housed in a 7-pin inline package and is used
in my Mitsubishi VCR, circa 1985, as a DC motor controller for
the tape drive.
Checking in the oldest IC Master I have (1990), I don't see it
listed, and it appears to have been discontinued. ... | 15 |
6,714 |
Well, if SHIT means going to the Stanley Cup finals a couple years
ago, I'd rather be shit than a leaf fan.
| 16 |
6,715 | ..
As Ben says - this re-boost idea is all news to us here. Do you know
something we don't? Please supply a source - it would be nice for
the schedulers of observations to know where the thing is going to
be. These altitude numbers are also way off.
My best source has:
"Minimum ST ALTITUDE in the PMDB is: ... | 12 |
6,716 | If anyone has a list of companies doing data visualization (software
or hardware) I would like to hear from them. Thanks.
-- krs
-- | 7 |
6,717 |
Vintage Brakes
176 Bluefield Ave.
Newbury Park, CA. 91320
(805)498-5527
They reline all types of obsolete motorcycle brake shoes with Ferodo
material.
Place to try:
Deutsches Motorrad Register
8663 Grover Place
Shreveport, LA 71115
(club for all types of two-wheeled German ... | 0 |
6,718 | 18 | |
6,719 | Marvin Minsky (hi there) writes of building "perceptrons?" in the 1950s using
motor-driven potentiometers to vary the weights. He reported that the circuits
worked even tho there were wiring errors. (Can you say ROBUST?)
Cadium Sulfide cells vary with light. CMOS or TTL gates provide the SIGMOID
somewhat-linear-yet-so... | 15 |
6,720 |
Car accessory shops here sell stuff called T-Cut, which is a very fine
cutting paste for paint, and this will remove the dull finish and
minor acratches. It will also remove all the traffic film and stuff that
you probably don't realise is there, and give your paintwork its original
lustre and shine. It can sometime... | 0 |
6,721 |
What is fornication? (sex outside of marriage, abuse of sex)
Is not homosexual intercourse outside the context of marriage?
Isn't it an unatural use of what God has given us?
Why is it that homosexuals are using the Grace of God as a license to
practice sin?
For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, t... | 18 |
6,722 |
Ha!
Watch me. It flies. It lands. It gets rebuilt.
That's not what they told us back in the '70's.
1. It isn't a logical follow-on. A logical follow-on would have
been either a Russian "snowfox" type thingey (for the lifting bodies)
or something like MMI's Space Van (or Boeing's TSTO, or the airbreathing
TSTO ... | 12 |
6,723 |
As if an aluminum stick being taken to Ulf's head is gonna solve the problem
with violence in the sport of hockey. How the hell can you say the guy is
a goon and justify it, with your back-assward mentality? Saying that hurting
a player will solve anyone's problems is asinine. New rules and a new
referee s... | 16 |
6,724 |
It's the video card. It's 8514/A compatible, which means it uses the
same i/o addresses as com4.
--jh | 5 |
6,725 | From article <1r492jINN5fo@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>, by nomad@ecst.csuchico.edu (Michael Larish):
I take it that when something happens that is wrong it's okay if
a bunch of people say it is? For instance, if some people go on a
murderous rampage and lynch some blacks and then a poll is taken which
shows that the m... | 19 |
6,726 | Try spectrum.xerox.com [192.70.225.78] in /pub/map/dem.
| 7 |
6,727 |
Three possible results after interview:
1) rejection outright
2) acceptance outright
3) the infamous 'wait list'...
If you are on a 'wait list', your entrance into medical school
is dependent upon some other applicant withdrawing their
acceptance. This can happen as late as day -1 of starting
classes.
You can a... | 9 |
6,728 |
STILL, the Angel Gabriel's greetings was:
"Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.
Blessed art thou amongst women".
Even Mary was confused about this greeting. | 18 |
6,729 | Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have
sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart. | 18 |
6,730 |
Basically the right question, although I was interested in cases closer
to home where the Sun is behind either a natural object or effective
shielding.
Good point (and thanks for the references). | 12 |
6,731 | I agree with Gaia. Even though the Saturn has proved to be a very reliable car
so far, a little money spent now is worth the peace of mind.
In my opinion, getting the PowerTrain warranty is enough. In my case, that's be
cause; anything that needed repairing in the interior (sunroof, windows, doors,
etc.) I could do m... | 4 |
6,732 | I have been backing up my hard drive ever since I had to re-install
everything from scratch after a crash (learned the hard way, didn't I?!).
I am using a windows-based backup program (actually Norton), and I
began wondering about the logic of this. Sure, if I accidentally delete
a file, I can get it from the archive... | 17 |
6,733 |
Sorry for any confusion I may have created. The disk did come out of
a VS2000 and I would like to use it in a IBM PC clone. The reason that I
posted to comp.sys.3b1 was because I saw the drive (XT2190) mentioned
in a for-slae notice. I had asked for info before but didn't receive
any replies.
Thanks once ... | 1 |
6,734 |
Now I have a comment concerning Israeli terrorism
during the 1930's and 1940's. The Hirgun, and other branch -
off militant groups, did fight the British do get them out of
Palestine. Yet I fail to see how this Israeli form of
terrorism was better than the terrorism practiced now by the
Arabs. Th... | 2 |
6,735 |
Absolutely not true. Without religion - either an established one or
one you invent for yourself - the theist and atheist are equally
(not) interested in God, because without religious revelation there
is _no_ information about God available. Strip away the dogma and
the theists/atheists are no different, simply holdi... | 14 |
6,736 |
Jim,
I hope you never drive (or ride) when:
you have been drinking
you have been taking prescription drugs
you didn't get enough sleep the night before
you are upset with your girlfriend
you just didn't feel like your brain was talking to your body
you think you are at laguna seca and want to break the la... | 0 |
6,737 |
Are you saying that you have some extras that you would like to do some cost
recovery on? I may be interested. I think for practical and cost reasons I
am limited to envelope detection so that leaves me with only increasing the
output power and increasing the optical gain at the receiver as methods to
extend range.
... | 15 |
6,738 | I was just wondering what kind (brand, name, etc...) would be best on this
bike.... thanks for your advice....
| 0 |
6,739 | -*----
I do not have enough medical expertise to have much of an opinion
one way or another on hidden candida infections. I can
understand the skepticism of those who see this associated with
various general kinds of symptoms, while there is a lack of solid
demonstration that this happens and causes such general symp... | 9 |
6,740 |
I waved to a guy on a riding mower this morning. Does that count?
BTW, I live in the country... EVERYONE waves out here!
----===== DoD #8177 = Technician(Dr. Speed) .NOT. Student =====---- | 0 |
6,741 | Mike Adams suggested discussions on long-term effects of spaceflight
to the human being. I love this topic, as some of you regulars know.
So, having seen Henry's encouraging statement about starting to talk
about it; I shall.
I feel that we as a community of people have unique resources
to deliver to the world a com... | 12 |
6,742 |
This is a good question. There are major blind spots in our understanding
of what makes the earth habitable. For example, why does the earth's
atmosphere have the concentration of oxygen it does? The naive
answer is "photosynthesis", but this is clearly incomplete. Photosynthesis
by itself can't make the atmospher... | 12 |
6,743 | I've been able to configure xterm so that I can type in accented characters.
I'm using X11R5, with iso8859 fonts, my shell is tcsh with the following
definitions :
setenv LC_CTYPE iso_8859_1
stty pass8
Then, I add the following in my .Xdefaults file:
XTerm*eightBitInput: True
XTerm*eightBitOutput: True
XTerm*VT100... | 6 |
6,744 | Hi,
I use a PC with a screen access program (IBM Screen Reader) and a
speech synthesizer. (Accent SA).
I would like to find out about screen access programs for the windows
platform. I heard that were a couple of them out now under beta
testing, I would like to find out addresses/prices etc.
Thanks,
--Raman | 17 |
6,745 | 3 | |
6,746 |
What the hell are U talking about? ESPN showed Pens/Devils game as advertised.
BUt the morons at ESPN should know that Pens will kick Devils ass and the
game will be boring. I'd rather see Boston/Buffalo game which seems to be
an exciting series since noone had expected Buffalo to get past the first
round.
... | 16 |
6,747 | Ken
| 1 |
6,748 |
Xoftware from Age Software has proven good by me. Runs under MS Windows and is relatively stable.
techsup@age.com
could probably help you out more.
--Andy
| 6 |
6,749 |
True. William "Dummy" Hoy was baseball's first deaf player. He
played in the bigs from 1888 through 1903 for several teams, including
the White Sox and Reds.
--
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Brian Curran Mead Data Central brian@meaddata.c... | 11 |
6,750 | specify RamdomPlacement (or RandomPlace ? )
in your .tvtwmrc. This places the windows not-interactively
in pseudo - random positions on your screens.
| 6 |
6,751 |
This is true, but it's not quite the whole story. There were
actually some people who were more careful in their methodology
who also replicated the 'phantom leaf effect.'
One of the most influential critics of Kirlian Electrophotography
is a Theosophist (and threfore presumably willing to entertain the
... | 9 |
6,752 | Caps/Isles Fans,
Anyone interested in catching the games from Nassau
Coliseum (hopefully there will be another) can catch
the game at North Carolina's Original Sports Bar in
Chapel Hill. I'm pretty sure they carry HTS as well.
They had all three games on at the same
time last night. This is the only place I know to
... | 16 |
6,753 | Mark Ira Kaufman writes | 2 |
6,754 |
Because some people like them (and some people actually need them).
Yeah, right. Real muscle cars had a manual transmission, and their
clutches aren't that heavy. Shelby-American used plenty of
high-powered, high-torque engines, and Carroll only put autos in
his cars because people wanted them. (Blasphemers! Heretic... | 4 |
6,755 | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What kind of ranking system is used?
| 2 |
6,756 |
Even I noticed that Gant's demeanor was not one of a batter
attempting to regain his concentration. Gant was stalking off.
I wonder if Gant said something to the ump?
Actually, there was a small hand wave by Gant...as if to say
'Don't bother me'. Gant may have said something here, too.
Cox was already halfway to ... | 11 |
6,757 | *** On 04-19-93 03:56, Juan Carlos Leon had the unmitigated gall to say this:
JCL> I just got a problem, I have a cheapo 2400bps modem which I use to
JCL> connect to my university, but I get too much garbage on the screen. I
JCL> do know it's because the noise in the line (I can actually hear it).
JCL> So my que... | 5 |
6,758 | Hi-
Does anyone out there know how I would get started on writing a
device driver for the Apple CD300 CD-ROM drive, which *can*
read audio CD formats out through the SCSI bus? | 10 |
6,759 | hello,
for 2 months I've unsuccessfully attempted to get either
a 3rd or 4th serial port working on my system.
various systems diagnostics (e.g., MSD, Norton) tell me
it's there, but anything I hook up to it can't use it
I have two serial ports on the motherboard
if I set my internal FAX/modem for com4 the utility
... | 5 |
6,760 |
I have a feeling that you are not "the enemy". There are without a doubt
dickhead cops. But there are at least as many dickhead bikers, even here
(you know who you are :-). I will certainly give you the same benefit of
the doubt as any other biker here. Welcome.
I think I can speak for the entire DoD in this.
... | 0 |
6,761 |
Make sure you use the small fonts driver & not the large fonts driver. Check
that in your setup. That's the only explanation I would find.
Hope this helps
| 17 |
6,762 |
Pierre Turgeon of the Islanders | 16 |
6,763 | From article <C5sEGz.Mwr@dscomsa.desy.de>, by hallam@dscomsa.desy.de (Phill Hallam-Baker):
[stuff about British cult members deleted]
They were using 50 caliber ammunition not 50mm ammo. 50mm would be 5cm; a
shell of this size would be larger than a lot of cannon shells.
Snipers could have screened the people trying... | 19 |
6,764 | 15 | |
6,765 | :
: > Surely you are not equating David Koresh with Christianity? The two are
: > not comparable.
:
: This is always an option: when the sect is causing harm, re-label
: the cult to something else.
:
: Cheers,
: Kent
Good point.
I would not doubt that DK could have spouted verse and debated with best.
According to... | 8 |
6,766 |
I guess that it was not acceptable because Germany *also* chose
a path of aggression simultaneously that put the interests of
other countries in peril. I wonder whether US or other countries
would have risked themselves if only Jews were persecuted and
Hitler had no imperialist ambitions. (I am no stude... | 2 |
6,767 | =Which was why I started checking EVERY time I got sick. And EVERY
=time I got sick MSG was somehow involved in one of the food products.
Which points up the "studies" made by amateurs: Did you ALSO check EVERY TIME
YOU DID *NOT* get sick? "No," you say? Why not check every thing you eat when
you don't get sick an... | 9 |
6,768 | If someone has downloaded the PCTools demo from Compuserve,
please upload it to CICA or other FTP site. | 17 |
6,769 | : Hi!
:
: Is it possible through either pin configuration or through software
: programming to change the IP numbers on an ethernet card?
:
: Thanks in Advance!
:
: --
: =-Dave *Tigger!*
:
: djohnson@moose.uvm.edu 'Tiggers are wonderful things!'
: Dave C Johnson
I think you mean the ethernet numbers. ... | 5 |
6,770 | Just saw an article in New Scientist; AT&T videophones won't talk to (?)BTI
videophones. The AT&T ones use a 19.2kb modem, BTI uses 14.4kb. AT&T models
have to communicate using all AT&T exchanges, whereas the BTI can route
via most current exchanges. Suggestions include building standards converters
into telephone... | 15 |
6,771 |
Nice sig. Like the change.
BTW: Could you post the names of the people who are going to be on the
letter? I (and I'm sure others) would like to know if we are included. If I'm
not I want to be! Roger is a fool!
| 16 |
6,772 |
One more reason for men to learn the Lamaze breathing techniques, in order
to be able to get some pain reduction instantly, wherever you are. | 9 |
6,773 |
Or somebody get them by a local call and contact a ftp site for
uploading. If this is not possible, I can keep them on my disk and
email the at request uuencoded. Provided, that somebody sends them to
me, of cource. (I live in NY:-)
--
Penio Penev x7423 (212)327-7423 (w) Internet: penev@venezia.rockefeller.edu | 17 |
6,774 |
Cool. And thank you for an intelligent response devoid of the silly
name-calling of others. :)
One of the basic things you need to
OK.
Actually, I think the large-scale sample size is part of the problem.
It seems to me that if we were to plot all the players in baseball
in regard to BA vs. Clutch BA deviati... | 11 |
6,775 |
I see that I misphrased my question. I should have asked WHICH
full-autos Kratz can accurately distinguish from semi-auto
look-alikes. I should have also included some semi-auto only guns in
my list to see if he'd ask how to distinguish them from their
non-existent full-auto "relatives".
Let's do the former now. K... | 19 |
6,776 | In what seems to be a classic Mitchell move, he drops a fly ball, and injures
his hamstring on the same play. Haven't heard anything on how serious the
leg is.
--->Paul, who me? bitter about Mitchell's performance in Seattle? Nah.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
... | 11 |
6,777 | The *security* of the system does depend only on the secrecy of the keys.
The ability to tap is an inherent *insecurity* which depends fundamentally on
the secrecy of the algorithm. To spell it out, because so many people seem to
miss the point, if the algorithm were published, anyone could create a chip
which would ... | 3 |
6,778 |
The obsession with discussions of past (or present) events seems to be
largely centered on trying to "prove" that "they" are worse than "us".
As we see over and over, that leads nowhere except to make ourselves
feel superior. It's as if we've become addicted to periodic injections
of "self-affirmation" that draw their... | 2 |
6,779 | Can someone tell me where to find 120volt 3 watt 40 mA fans that
fit the standard computer mounting size )ie. 3 and 1/8 inch wide
and 4 inches diagonal from hole to hole (hole=where bolt or screw
goes through. I have found higher (NOISY) fans that are 120 v
6 watt, but I need a quite fan. I can use 12 volt as well, b... | 15 |
6,780 | [...]
If they're planning on patenting an algorithm, then I hope they go out of
business as quickly as possible. And you can tell them I said that.
I'm sure many other readers of these newsgroups will agree, too.
| 3 |
6,781 | Jerry Salem writes
The only way to do that would be to add a video card to the LC expansion
port. This doesn't have to be that expensive; several companies have portrait
monitor/video card bundles available.
Check a current MacWorld/MacUser.
--Nizam
-- | 10 |
6,782 | I have the following Playboy videos for sale. Email me if interested. All are
original tapes (of course) in original boxes.
Video Playmate Calendar 1991
Wet & Wild II
Sexy Lingerie II
Sexy Lingerie III
Prices are $15 each, 2 for $25, 3 for $35, or all 4 for $45.
I also have a bunch of magazines (Playboy, Penthouse... | 1 |
6,783 |
So of the 120 hp produced by my FJ1100 engine,
12 hp * (745.7 watts)/1 hp = 8.948 kilowatts
is being dumped into 220 leetle tiny o-rings? That's 40.67 watts per
o-ring! Seems a little *hot*, doncha think? | 0 |
6,784 | <><><><> L O O K I N G F O R D A N A W E I C K <><><><>
HE IS A CROOK. DON'T DEAL WITH HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please Help:
I am looking for Dana Weick. A month ago I made a deal with him over the
net. I was to sell him some memory, in exchang for $100 and a 486-66 cpu.
I thought the deal was great, so I... | 1 |
6,785 |
That doesn't count as getting rid of the press. Getting rid of the press
would mean getting them far enough away so that they wouldn't be able to
see what is going on. | 19 |
6,786 |
From what I understand of my experience in looking up this word, and
discussing it with a Greek-literate individual, the meaning of the
word is rather clear. Basically it literally means "he who beds with a man"
or "he who has sex with a man." The burden of proof is on the
pro-homosexuality side of the argument t... | 18 |
6,787 | I.D. Benham, on the Wed, 21 Apr 1993 17:11:39 GMT wibbled:
: Hi,
: I'm now in the market for buying a BMW.The ideal would be an R80 RS but I'd be
: interested to here of any R80 for sale .Age is not a problem - I'm more
: interested in a good example without a massive amount of miles and one which has
: been well ma... | 0 |
6,788 |
What CPU does this use? I need the info fro my Thesis. | 5 |
6,789 | First $50.00 grabs it! It's a Sears Kenmore 700 Watt unit FYI.
Art
This unit has been sold. Thank you for your replies!
There is another oven available for those still interested. My mother
decided to sell her spare. Same price, $50.00 to the first taker.
Her's is strictly microwave, no convection, and is in equally... | 1 |
6,790 | Note: The device has never been used (IE: still in plastic) and is 10baseT | 1 |
6,791 |
And is there a reason or value for such a brainless shit for brains asshole
to be haer. You are a self hating bastard. Neither your name nor your
ideas, which I've come across before and thought were too stupid and
uncivlized to respond to, prove your first-worldist claim and civility.
Give me sources to read it ... | 2 |
6,792 |
Why? There is no need to go into this.......
especially this rivetting piece of information.
As I remember, someone did ask if UV had a speach code. But, really,
there is no need for this brief survey course.
How wonderful for you.
| 2 |
6,793 | 17 | |
6,794 |
Then delete the "unfortunately". Now tell me that the two statement
say effectively the same thing.
And to save everyone a couple of trips round this loop, please notice
that we are only obliged to use force to preserve self. We can choose
*not* to preserve self, which is the point of pacifism.
And in this case... | 8 |
6,795 | After reading the posts on this newsgroup for the pasts 4 months, it
has become apparent to me that this group is primarily active with
Liberals, Catholics, New Agers', and Athiests. Someone might think
to change the name to: soc.religion.any - or - perhaps even
soc.religion.new. It might seem to be more appro... | 18 |
6,796 |
We want to give lawyers something to do in the 21st cen., don't we?
Oh I bet you do. They are probably just better at it than our crooks. :-)
| 12 |
6,797 | I have been posting monthly "how-to-setup a SLIP client on a PC" posts for a
few months. Lots of work, and imminent graduation have come in the way of
posting one of these for March or earlier this month -- for which I apologize.
This file includes information on writing a script for University of Minnesota
PHONE, ... | 17 |
6,798 | From article <1993Apr26.110250.5243@nmt.edu>, by erickson@azure.nmt.edu (Alan Erickson): | 15 |
6,799 | This is not an unusual practice if the doctor is also a
member of a nudist colony.
| 9 |
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